Latest Virginia wine country Podcast Episodes
EPISODE # 5 MICHAEL HENY, "ALL ABOUT VIRGINIA NORTON"
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 04, 2024 19:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMichael Heny spent close to 20 years in winemaking at Horton Cellars before taking the position as winemaker at Michael Shaps Wineworks in 2019. As a result of his many years working with Dennis Horton, who was the person responsible for re-introducing Norton back to Virginia, he has a great dea...
EPISODE # 4 DuCard Vineyards/Scott Elliff & Julien Durantie "All About Virginia Norton"
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 06, 2024 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this Episode I interview my friend Scott Elliff the Founder & Owner of DuCard Vineyard along with his winemaker Julien Durantie. It is an in-depth look at how one small Virginia Estate tackles the challenges of growing and producing world-quality wine from the Norton grape. For my part I say,...
EPISODE # 3 FIFTY-THIRD WINERY & VINEYARD ALL ABOUT VIRGINIA NORTON
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 30, 2024 20:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEpisode # 3 found me in my studio interviewing the owner of Fifty-Third Winery & Vineyard Dave Drillock and his winemaker Chelsey Blevins who is quickly being recognized as a young rising star in the Virginia wine industry. Fifty-Third Winery & Vineyard produces an outstanding Norton along wit...
EPISODE #2 ALL ABOUT NORTON/JENNIFER McCLOUD FOUNDER CHRYSALIS VINEYARDS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 15, 2024 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEpisode # 2 features Jennifer McCloud the Founder & Owner of Chrysalis Vineyards at the Ag District in Middleburg, Virginia. Along with producing some of the finest Viognier and Albarino in the country she is the proud owner of the largest single vineyard planting of Norton in the world. It make...
EPISODE #1 INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF NORTON
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 31, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis Episode kicks off my new series of Podcasts focusing on wines produced from the Norton grape here in Virginia. In Episode #1 I recorded a conversation between the judges at the Homestead Norton Cup Challenge the weekend of November 3rd & 4th, 2023. It was during the lunch break before the j...
EPISODE # 6 JAY YOUMANS MASTER OF WINE
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - July 06, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Fine Wine Confidential Podcast tells the story of how the modern-day Virginia wine industry has progressed during the past forty-five years and is now achieving Thomas Jefferson's aspiration to produce world-class wine. Fred Reno interviews many of the Old Dominion's prominent winery owners,...
EPISODE #1 INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE WINE CONFIDENTIAL PODCAST
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - July 05, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Fine Wine Confidential Podcast tells the story of how the modern-day Virginia wine industry has progressed during the past forty-five years and is now achieving Thomas Jefferson's aspiration to produce world-class wine. Fred Reno interviews many of the Old Dominion's prominent winery owners,...
EPISODE # 44 DENNIS HORTON MONTAGE EPILOGUE
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - April 27, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis Epilogue to my Montage about Dennis Horton and his contribution to the Virginia wine industry you get the opportunity to hear directly from 3 generations of women in the Horton family. It was my intent to give them the last word on Dennis Horton. The interview was at Horton Cellars where...
EPISODE # 44 PART 2/DENNIS HORTON MONTAGE
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 29, 2023 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPart 2 of Episode #44 Montage about Dennis Horton features my interviews with Jenni McCloud, Owner and Founder of Chrysalis Vineyards who was inspired by Dennis Horton and planted the largest vineyard of Norton currently in the World. Followed by one of the most respected individual in the Virgi...
EPISODE #44 DENNIS HORTON MONTAGE Part 1
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 07, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBecause I never had the opportunity to meet of know Dennis Horton before he passed away, I wanted to include his story and contribution to the Virginia Wine Industry in some fashion. I was given an idea by Bruce Zoecklein Professor Emeritus of Enology at VA Tech. He suggested that I interview...
EPISODE # 43 JASON MURRAY/ARTERRA WINERY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 15, 2022 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsArterra Winery was founded by Jason Murray in 2013. Jason is a veteran of winegrowing in Northern Virginia for over 20 years. Arterra, which means "Art of the Land" represents Jason's quest to grow wine in a fashion unseen by most of us in the wine business. His Marketing moniker is " Clean Win...
EPISODE # 42 COMMON WEALTH CRUSH COMPANY/BEN JORDAN, TIM JORDAN, PATT EAGAN
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 25, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCommon Wealth Crush Company is a new exciting development in the Virginia Wine Industry. Ben Jordan along with his brother Tim and Jordan and Patt Eagan have opened what I term a winemaker Studio in the historic district of downtown Waynesboro, Virginia. Conceptually, it will allow small wine...
EPISODE # 41 CHRIS PEARMUND/PEARMUND CELLARS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - October 30, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Pearmund has been in the Virginia wine industry for over 30 years. He started his career in 1990 when he managed to snag an entry level position at Naked Mountain. He would then purchase Meriweather vineyard in 1996 which has the oldest Chardonnay vines in Virginia today, planted in 1976...
EPISODE # 40 LEE HARTMAN BLUESTONE VINEYARD WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - September 08, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBluestone Vineyard started out as a small family vineyard when Curt and Jackie Hartman were, encouraged by their friends Phil and Lois Kreider, to help them expand their own availability of grapes for the purpose to produce wine for their own personal use in 2003. In 2007 the decision was made ...
EPISODE #39 CHELSEY BLEVINS/WINEMAKER FIFTY-THIRD WINERY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - July 01, 2022 18:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsChelsey Blevins would tell you that winemaking found her. It was in 2010 that she visited Horton Vineyards and was given a full tour of the cellars. It was after the tour that Mike Heny, who was the winemaker at that time asked her if she wanted to work the harvest. She said, why not. Thus, ...
EPISODE # 38 DAMIEN BLANCHON:AFTON MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS WINEMAKER & VINEYARD MANAGER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - June 12, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDamien Blanchon was born and raised in the South of France where his family had roots in the Beaujolais Village region of Burgundy. He grew up with wine in his family and when he was 8 years-old he already knew this what he wanted to do--drive a tractor in the vines and be a winegrower. He wou...
EPISODE # 37 AFTON MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS/ELIZABETH &TONY SMITH OWNERS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - May 09, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAFton Mountain Vineyards was one of the first of the early farm wineries in Virginia when it was planted in 1978 by David Medford a Chemist from Richmond, Virginia. However, he named it Bacchanal Vineyards after the Greek god Bacchus. It would be purchase later by Tom & Shinko Corpora and rena...
EPISODE # 36 WILLIAMSBURG WINERY/PATRICK DUFFELER;FOUNDER & MATTHEW MEYER;WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - April 27, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPatrick Duffeler purchased his tract of land called Wessex Hundred just outside of Williamsburg, Virginia in 1983 and would start to plant his vineyard in 1985. Patrick was born in Belgium and after gaining his degree in Economics & Finance from the University of Rochester, New York he started ...
EPISODE # 35 BILL CURTIS/OWNER & CHEF:TASTINGS RESTAURANT, WINE BAR, & WINE SHOP CHARLOTTESVILLE
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - April 05, 2022 18:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen Bill Curtis opened TASTINGS Restaurant, Wine Bar, & Wine Shop in 1990 it was the first of its kind on the East Coast to combine all these elements under one roof. Bill has been involved in the Virginia wine and food scene for close to 40 years and has a tremendous Passion still, for the wi...
EPISODE # 34 JENNI McCLOUD/CHRYSALIS VINEYARDS AT THE AG DISTRICT
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 07, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJennifer McCloud's journey and pursuit to reclaim Norton as Virginia's native grape began in the mid-1990's when she found herself in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Eastern conference of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture, (A.S.E.V.) where Dennis Horton and his winemaking consulta...
EPISODE # 33 TIM & PETER RAUSSE/GABRIELE RAUSSE WINERY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 15, 2022 19:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTim & Peter Rausse were involved in the planting and development of the Gabriele Rausse winery beginning early in their youth. Although Tim went off to school shortly thereafter, he would return and immerse himself in the operation and winemaking and hasn't looked back. Peter calls himself th...
EPISODE # 32 MIKE HENY/WINEMAKER: MICHAEL SHAPS WINEWORKS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 25, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMichael Heny graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Comparative Literature from University of Virginia in 1990. Hardly, the typical training or studies that would lead to a successful career. He was in need of a job just out of college when he answered and ad for a position as...
EPISODE # 31 JUSTIN ROSE/WINEMAKER ROSEMONT VINEYARDS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 05, 2022 20:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRosemont Vineyards was established in 2003 by Stephan and Chandra Rose on a farm that had been in the Rose family since 1858. When Stephan retired as a successful Dow Chemical executive, he was interested in returning to the family farm and get back to land, so to speak. With the help of a fam...
EPISODE # 30 JON WEHNER/CHATHAM VINEYARDS AT CHURCH CREEK
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 08, 2021 19:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn 1999 Jon Wehner and his family established Chatham Vineyards at Church Creek located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Jon is a second-generation winegrower following in the footsteps of his mother and father who had a small home vineyard for over 30 years in Great Falls, Virginia. The qualit...
EPISODE # 29 Sharon Horton & Shannon Horton/Horton Vineyards
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 22, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDennis and Sharon Horton planted a small hobby vineyard at their home in Orange, Virginia in 1983. That hobby turned into the full-time pursuit in winegrowing and in 1989 they planted their first commercial vineyard. In 1993 their Viognier stunned the experts and was proclaimed the best Viogni...
EPISODE # 29 Sharon Horton & Shannon Horton/Horton Vineyards
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 22, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDennis and Sharon Horton planted a small hobby vineyard at their home in Orange, Virginia in 1983. That hobby turned into the full-time pursuit in winegrowing and in 1989 they planted their first commercial vineyard. In 1993 their Viognier stunned the experts and was proclaimed the best Viogni...
EPISODE # 28 CORRY CRAIGHILL/SEPTENARY WINERY & ASHLEIGH WHITE/GLEN MANOR VINEYARDS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 06, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBoth Corry Craighill & Ashleigh White have had an interesting start to their careers in the wine industry. Corry has made wine all over the world and Ashleigh has worked on the West Coast and the East Coast of this country. While Ashleigh had the good fortune to have her uncle, Jeff White tur...
EPISODE # 27 ENOLOGY PROFESSOR EMERITUS BRUCE ZOECKLEIN/VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - October 21, 2021 20:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBruce Zoecklein began his career in Enology on the staff at Fresno State University in California. He was recruited in 1985 by the University of Virginia to head up a new initiative to support the Virginia wine industry. His West Coast friends thought he was "crazy" as they couldn't fathom tha...
EPISODE #26 KIRK WILES/CO-FOUNDER & CEO PARADISE SPRINGS WINERY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - October 01, 2021 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsParadise Springs Winery was founded in 2007. However, the Fairfax County Board challenged the Wiles family's right to open a winery and start a vineyard. There was over two years of litigation which Kirk and his mother eventually prevailed and won. During that two year period Kirk was so conf...
EPISODE # 25 JOY TING/WINEMAKERS RESEARCH EXCHANGE COORDINATOR
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - September 13, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJoy Ting fell for the wine bug after a trip visiting here boyfriend, now her husband, while he was stationed in Northern California during his stint in the Air Force. They took a trip to Napa Valley and that experience intrigued the both of them. When they settled in Charlottesville, Virginia ...
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